Research Catalog

Title

Celia Álvarez Muñoz : breaking the binding ; Celia Álvarez Muñoz : enlightenment / organized by Isabel Casso and Kate Green ; contribitors: Celia Alvarez Munoz, Isabel Casso, Josh T. Franco, Kate Green, Roberto Tejada.

Author

Muñoz, Celia Álvarez, 1937-

Publication

• Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2023]
• New York, NY : available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Green, Kate (Kate Guttmacher)
• Casso, Isabel
• Franco, Josh T.
• Tejada, Roberto
• Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, host institution.

Description

139, 132 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, some folded); 30 cm

Summary

• "Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Breaking the Binding" is the first major publication devoted to the career of this seminal Chicana artist, who was born in El Paso, TX, in 1937. Accompanying her first museum career retrospective, this volume surveys the artist's decades of colorful photo and text-based artworks, book projects, large-scale installations, public works, and unpublished, associated archival materials. Color images and scholarly texts illuminate the artist's themes (childhood learning and perception, bicultural and bilingual experience, youthful slips of mind and tongue); and her often playful, first-person approach using conceptual tools. Resulting artworks are at once intimate and cerebral, analytical and joyful; reflecting the complexities of childhood, especially on a bicultural and bilingual border. Alongside images, the book features a conversation between the artist and her longtime interlocutor and friend, Roberto Tejada, as well as essays by the exhibition co-curators Kate Green and Isabel Casso, and Josh Franco, Head of Collecting at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
• "Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Enlightenment" features her Enlightenment series of artists' books and installations, with an essay by Isabel Casso, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

Uniform Title

Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Enlightenment.

Alternative Title

• Breaking the binding
• Enlightenment

Subject

• Muñoz, Celia Álvarez, 1937- > Exhibitions
• Muñoz, Celia Álvarez, 1937- > Interviews
• Muñoz, Celia Alvarez, 1937-
• Mexican American artists > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art) > United States > Exhibitions
• Artists' books > United States > Exhibitions
• Mexican American artists
• Installations (Art)
• Artists' books
• United States

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Two volumes, bound back-to-back.
• "This book is published with the exhibition "Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Breaking the Binding", organized and presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, March 16-August 13, 2023."
• "Contribitors, Celia Alvarez Munoz, Isabel Casso, Josh T. Franco, Kate Green, Roberto Tejada"--Pages 134-135.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• [volume 1]. Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Breaking the binding -- [volume 2]. Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Enlightenment
• "Chispas Quémenme!" ["Sparks, Burn Me!"] : Enlightenment #1, 1980 -- "Double Bubble & WWII" : Enlightenment #2, 1980-1982 -- "El Tuétano" ["The Marrow"] : Enlightenment #3, 1980-1982 -- "Which Came First?" : Enlightenment #4, 1982 -- "Personal Salvation" : Enlightenment #5, 1982-1983 -- "El Espíritu Malo" ["The Evil Spirit"], Enlightenment #6, 1982-1983 -- "Sangre de Christo" ["Blood of Christ"], Enlightenment #7, 1983 -- "Ave María Purísima", Enlightenment #8, 1983 -- "La Honey" ["The Honey"], Enlightenment #9, 1983 -- "La Tempestad" ["The Tempest"], Enlightenment #10, 1985.

Call Number

JQG 24-270

ISBN

• 9781955161343
• 1955161348

OCLC

1396453148

Author

Muñoz, Celia Álvarez, 1937- artist.

Title

Celia Álvarez Muñoz : breaking the binding ; Celia Álvarez Muñoz : enlightenment / organized by Isabel Casso and Kate Green ; contribitors: Celia Alvarez Munoz, Isabel Casso, Josh T. Franco, Kate Green, Roberto Tejada.

Publisher

Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2023]

Distributor

New York, NY : available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Green, Kate (Kate Guttmacher), contributor.

Casso, Isabel, contributor.

Franco, Josh T., contributor.

Tejada, Roberto, contributor.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, host institution.

Added Title

Container of (work): Celia Álvarez Muñoz : Enlightenment.

Research Call Number

JQG 24-270